The Girl Without Arms is a figure in Japanese folklore--a young girl whose arms are lopped off by her father, and is left to die in the mountains. The father, at the behest of his evil wife--the girl's stepmother--lures the girl into the mountains at the promise of attending a neighboring festival. This is only the beginning of the tale. The poems of Brandon Shimoda's The Girl Without Arms are birthed of the rainy shut-in...
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